Trogdor Was A Man

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"Trogdor was a dragon-man"

A Powered by The Cheat video for a song from a '70s commercial for a board game.

Cast (in order of appearance): Strong Bad, Trogdor, Peasants, Strong Sad, The Cheat, The Dancing Brothers

Places: The Cheat's Computer Room

Date: Thursday, September 13, 2018

Running Time: 2:17

Page Title: Trogdor Musk - For Dragon Men

Transcript

{A shirt with a Coca-Cola resembling shirt that says "When the Seventies" appears}

POWERED BY THE CHEAT STRONG BAD: When the seventies there was—

{The shirt merges to the Trogdor board game}

POWERED BY THE CHEAT STRONG BAD: —a commercial for board game.

{Board game box opens with Trogdor, 2 knights, 2 peasants, and a few cards}

POWERED BY THE CHEAT STRONG BAD: It was a terrible song—

{Fire flies away and a vinyl record appears}

POWERED BY THE CHEAT STRONG BAD: —of Trogdor. They made seven inches—

{zooms out into Powered By The Cheat Strong Sad holding the record}

POWERED BY THE CHEAT STRONG BAD: —but even Strong Sad thought it was not ver—

{Cuts to Strong Bad's head on The Cheat's computer}

POWERED BY THE CHEAT STRONG BAD: So The Cheat made a video. Does this sound like Strong Bad at all?

{Cuts to a plug that says The Pow-uh Surge, zooms into Peasantry}

SINGERS: Trogdor was a man.
Trogdor was a DRAGON Man.

Trogdor was a man.
Trogdor was a DRAGON Man.

And he was burninating, burninating, burninating the countryside!

Trogdor was a man. (S, more different S)
Trogdor was a DRAGON Man. (S, more different S)

(S, more different S) (Whispering things in the '70s)

And he was burninating, burninating, burninating the countryside!

Trogdor was a man. (Consummate, Consummate)
Trogdor was a DRAGON Man. (Consummate, Consummate)

Consummate, Consummate
Consummate V's

Maybe he was just a dragon.
Maybe he was just a dragon. Maybe he was just a dragon. Well, he was still Trogdor.

And the Trogdor comes in THE NIGHT!

{Cuts to Strong Sad and The Cheat at The Cheat's computer desk}

STRONG SAD: I don't know, The Cheat. There are a lot of inaccuracies present.

THE CHEAT: {The Cheat noises}

STRONG SAD: Well for starters, Trogdor wasn't even around when the '70s. Strong Bad made him in the early 2000s. {emphasizes the "a" in "thousand"}

THE CHEAT: {The Cheat noises}

STRONG SAD: And what was going on with depiction of me? I have that creepy bony spine...

{The Cheat brings up the picture of Powered by The Cheat Strong Sad}

POWERED BY THE CHEAT STRONG SAD: The Lusitania is my favorite boat.

STRONG SAD: No way! Everybody knows I'm a Mauretania man.

THE CHEAT: {The Cheat noises}

POWERED BY THE CHEAT STRONG SAD: My boat is not your boat!

STRONG SAD: Ugh, stop that!

POWERED BY THE CHEAT STRONG SAD: This is all gonna be about boats now.

STRONG SAD: Oh, that's a terrible idea!

POWERED BY THE CHEAT STRONG SAD: My boat take—

STRONG SAD: {interrupts} That's it! I'm going to the chiropractor!

{Strong Sad walks away}

STRONG SAD: Got me all self-conscious!

POWERED BY THE CHEAT STRONG SAD: Don't you like boats?

Fun Facts

Trivia

• The Monosodium Dreams has been replaced by a newer computer parodying the newer Intel-based iMacs.

"Well, this is a new computer."

Inside References

• This song is meant to be a '70s Disco version of the Trogdor song, which, in turn, makes it a reference to email dragon.
• This toon prominently features basketball.
• The Dancing Brothers previously appeared in A Folky Tale.
• Powered by The Cheat Strong Sad says "boat take", a term previously seen in environment.
• The ending with The Cheat and Strong Sad is a reference to the end of New Boots.

Real-World References

• The Lusitania was a British ocean liner and briefly the world's largest passenger ship. The ship was sunk on May 7, 1915 by a German U-boat 11 miles off the southern coast of Ireland.
• The Mauretania was an ocean liner designed by Leonard Peskett and built by Wigham Richardson & Swan Hunter for the British Cunard Line, and launched on the afternoon of September 20, 1906.
• Lusitania and Mauretania were also provinces of the Roman Empire.

See Also

• The visuals that occur during the music video.

External Links

• watch "Trogdor Was A Man" on the old Flash site
• view the Flash file for "Trogdor Was A Man"
• watch "Trogdor Was A Man" on YouTube